Wire told NME: "We've never done anything on this scale before, so we'll be playing for an hour and a half, then there will be a half-an-hour interval, with lots of stuff, film stuff to do. And then we'll finish with another 20 songs."

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He added: "It's going to be an immense project, production-wise, screens, videos, you name it. It will be a completely unique thing and we'll never do it again."

Tickets for the one-off gig will go on sale on September 2 at 9am.

Watch the music video for the Manic Street Preachers hit 'The Masses Against The Classes' below: